Agriculture:
-enclosure (together)
-farming for profit (together)
-new technology (together
-agriculteral science (Veronica)
-new crops (Logan)
-livestock change (Nick)
-impact (Makenna)
-videos (Nick)
Notes for agriculteral science:
some innovations brought from the Americas
most famous practice: companion planting
companion farming: they grew plants together like corn, beans, and squash
Lord Townshend (named Turnip Townshend) made a crop rotation system and a new way to feed livestock
he found out that if he roatated the crops from field to field, all fields could be used every year.
-that increased crop growth, and the growth of cheap fodder
fodder- plants to feed animals
fodder allowed him to increase his herds
different vegetables would allow diffferent nutrients to be released in the soil (like turnips and clover). this replenished the soil
Lord Townshed make root vegetables more popular
cycle was made up of wheat, turnips, oats or barley and clover
Notes on seed drill:
farmers used to plant seeds by broadcasting
-seeds were planted by throwing them around the field by hand. This was bad because the seeds were not distributed evenly and seeds were wasted
seed drill is a planting machine created by Jethro Tull
it was pulled by horses and planted seeds in rows
this method was faster and less wasteful
seeds were less likely to be eaten by birds or animals
easier to harvest
reduced labour
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